What got you here won't get you there
It's been some time that I wrote an article in this newspaper claiming that Bangladesh could pack a punch harder than its bigger neighbours in many areas, and that it's time other countries started learning from it.
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Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneInjecting faith into our tax culture
In Bangladesh, all tax-paying citizens know that our current revenue collection systems are outmoded to the point where it actively deters from the very notion of paying taxes, leading to a tax net that has been static, if not shrinking year after year.
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Representational photo BigstockThe controversy-riddled history of EVMs in Bangladesh
Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have been plagued with controversy in Bangladesh elections ever since they were introduced. Allegations of vote rigging and information leaks, complications with fingerprints, and slow voting are just some of the problems that came up in polls with EVMs.
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Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneMatia Chowdhury: Our journey is not easy, but we are not afraid
Veteran politician Matia Chowdhury, a presidium member of the Awami League and deputy leader of Parliament, recently sat with Dhaka Tribune's Ali Asif Shawon to discuss the current political climate and the history of the country
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CollectedNew policy in the offing to regulate mosques
The mosque is a very sacred place for Muslims, and regarded as the centre of religious practice where they go to pray five times a day. In recent years, the trend of devotees of different ages praying in Jamaat (congregation) has increased significantly in Dhaka and different parts of the country.
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File photo of a mosque in Chittagong Dhaka TribuneMike Pompeo: US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Tuesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation.
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FILE PHOTO: A farmer carries a sack of grass as he walks near the fenced border between India-Pakistan in Ranbir Singh Pura sector near Jammu March 1, 2019 ReutersUS, Germany poised to send tanks to Ukraine
The United States was expected to announce as soon as Wednesday that it will send heavy tanks to Ukraine, and Germany has decided to do the same, sources said, a reversal that Kyiv has said would reshape its war with Russia.
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A Ukrainian serviceman sits atop a BMP infantry fighting vehicle in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on October 2, 2022 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine AFP